Identity area
Type of entity
Authorized form of name
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
History
LITTLETON, EDWARD, third son of Sir Adam Littleton, Bart., and Etheldreda, dau. of Sir Thomas Poyntz, North Ockenden, Essex; bap. Stoke St. Milborough, Shropshire 21 Dec 1625 (IGI); at school under Busby (Wood, Athenae Oxon., iv, 574); St. Mary Hall, Oxford, matr. 2 Apr 1641, aged 15; BA 1644; MA 1648 (incorp. Cambridge 1657); Fellow of All Souls Coll. Oxford 1647; Senior Proctor 1656; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 24 Apr 1649, called to bar 15 Nov 1664; went to Barbados as Secretary to Lord Willoughby of Parham 1666; acted as Judge, Barbados 1670-83; member of Assembly, Barbados 1674; agent for Barbados from return to London in 1683; author of several tracts, some published anonymously; m. 1669 Dorothy, widow of Edward Harrison, Barbados, and dau. of John Booth, Glossop, Derbs.; buried Greenwich, Kent 9 Feb 1701/2. DNB.
Places
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
Language(s)
Script(s)
Sources
Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.